Jon Seidel reports: A federal judge in Chicago ordered an alleged Tennessee hacker accused of targeting schools and big businesses taken into custody Wednesday while he awaits trial. The FBI arrested Timothy French nearly a year ago in his hometown of Morristown, Tennessee, and accused him of being a key member of the hacker collective…
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NJ: Data breach involves Southwest Licking School District student info
Chad Klimack reports: Southwest Licking Local Schools is alerting parents to a data breach that could involve the release of student information, including names, addresses and even Social Security numbers. The breach could affect up to 113 students, Southwest Licking Superintendent Robert Jennell said. Southwest Licking officials are notifying all potentially impacted families via letter….
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield discloses that hack in June 2014 affected 1.1 million members
From CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield: On May 20, 2015, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) announced that the company has been the target of a sophisticated cyberattack. The attackers gained limited, unauthorized access to a single CareFirst database. This was discovered as a part of the company’s ongoing Information Technology (IT) security efforts in the wake of…
Cn: Hacker jailed for linking school website to pornography pages
Ke Jiayun reports: A hacker who gained control of a middle school’s website in Chongming County and linked it to pornography pages was sentenced to 10 months in jail for illegally controlling computers, Chongming County People’s Court said today in Shanghai. The man began hacking into systems three years ago and had broken into dozens…
Telstra-owned Pacnet hit by major data breach
David Ramli reports: Australia’s leading cyber-spies have joined the hunt for hackers who broke into Telstra’s Asian subsidiary Pacnet in an attack affecting thousands of customers including The Australian Federal Police, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and other government agencies. Telstra on Wednesday revealed that an unknown third-party had gained complete access to Pacnet’s corporate network including emails and…
Hacker data dumps scrape to make huge grey marketing database
Darren Pauli reports: Former password collector Steve Thomas plans to tear up the contact broker market by offering a database of 30 million names for free, all built on data sourced by scraping the web. The former PwnedList founder, and now SalesMaple CEO, says the database will soon to balloon to almost 100 million records….